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Tuesday, June 27, 2017

UNWORTHY COMMUNION by Fr. Franz Hunolt, 1887

And whilst they were eating,
he said: Amen I say to you, that one of you is about to betray me. And
they being very much troubled, began every one to say: Is it I, Lord?
But he answering, said: He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, he
shall betray me. The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him:
but woe to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed: it were
better for him, if that man had not been born. And Judas that betrayed
him, answering, said: Is it I, Rabbi? He saith to him: Thou hast said
it.--Matth 26: 21-25

Subject: 1. To approach the Table of the Lord in the
state of sin is to treat Jesus Christ most unjustly. 2. Yet there are
many who treat Him thus--

"But I say unto you, that none of those men that were invited shall taste of my supper."

Introduction: What a futile excuse that; I have bought a
farm! And what if you have? Does that prevent you from going to the
Supper? Oh, I must go and see it! You should have done that before
buying it, so as to see whether it suits you or not. I have bought five
yoke of oxen. Well, does that prevent you from accepting the invitation?
I must see them. What? In the evening, with the dark night coming on? I
have married a wife. And if you have, do you not want food or drink
any more? The fact is, you could all have excused yourselves in shorter
terms, and more in accordance with truth, by saying, I will not come. My
dear brethren, by the great Supper, we understand the Blessed Sacrament
of the Altar, to which our Lord invites all men in the most friendly
manner, that they may frequently receive His Flesh and Blood in the Holy
Communion. But how many refusals He receives from most people, who
approach this holy Table but very seldom! How many vain excuses are
invented and put forward by people who try to persuade themselves that
they cannot communicate frequently! On another occasion I will complain
of this tepidity, when I shall exhort you to frequent Communion. Today I
must complain still more bitterly of those Christians who communicate
far too often and too readily, and who would do better by abstaining
from Communion altogether. If I knew who they were, I should have just
cause for crying-out to them when they approach the altar rails: Away
with you! Keep away from here! This Table is not prepared for you! I
tell you that not one of you shall partake of it. And who are they? I
mean those alone who receive Holy Communion with an impure conscience,
in the state of sin. What a fearful sin they commit! And how many
Catholics there are who are guilty of it! As we shall now see.Plan of Discourse: To approach the Table of the Lord in
the state of sin, is to treat Jesus Christ most unjustly. This I will
show in the first and longer part. Yet there are many who treat Him
thus; as I shall complain in the second part. Sinners, either do
penance, and amend your lives; or else abstain from Holy Communion:
pious souls, continue to communicate all the more frequently: such will
he the conclusion.Help us all to this, O dearest Saviour, through the intercession of Thy Virgin Mother Mary, and our holy angels guardian.As I have said on the
former occasion, the greatest insult that
a creature can offer to God, is blasphemy; and that, because it is a
crime against the divine Majesty. The same truth is the foundation of my
present subject, that to receive Holy Communion in the state of sin, is
to treat Jesus Christ most unjustly; for amongst the crimes that attack
the divine Majesty directly, it is one of the greatest, since by it
Christ is shamefully ill-used. To speak insultingly of a king,
especially in his presence, is a most intolerable crime against human
majesty, and is punished with death; and yet it is committed only by
words which are carried away by the wind, and inflict no wound. But to
attack the king's person, when he is seated on his throne, surrounded by
his attendants and courtiers, or when he is passing in state through
the streets, or when he is seated at a public banquet; to attack him
then and plunge a dagger in his heart, would be a crime that no one but a
madman would commit, or dream of. For where could a sovereign expect
the reverence to be shown to him, to which he is entitled, when he is
not sure of his life, even on his throne, or seated at his table?See, oh Christian,
such is the insolence, or rather madness you are guilty of, when you
dare to receive Holy Communion in the state of sin. You pierce with a
sword of sorrow the Heart of Jesus, your Lord, the King of kings, when
you receive His most sacred Flesh and Blood with a heart and conscience
defiled by sin. "' Therefore," says St. Paul to the Corinthians,
"whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord
unworthily, shall be guilty of the Body and of the Blood of the Lord
(Cor. xi. 27)." That is, as the Gloss says: "He shall be punished as if
he had actually killed our Lord." It is the living bread as our Lord
says in the Gospel of St. John: "I am the living bread, which came down
from Heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and
the bread that I will give, is my Flesh for the life of the world (John
vi. 51, 52)." "This life you destroy by an unworthy Communion;
for you cause its efficacy to be destroyed in you, and you make it kill
your soul, instead of causing it to live. It is true, according to St.
Paul, that every mortal sin crucifies and slays again the Son of God:
"Crucifying again to themselves the Son of God (Heb. vi. 6); " still
that is done in a moral sense by disgracing His image impressed on the
human soul, which dies by sin; but in an unworthy Communion the
Prototype Himself has to suffer; since He is present in His own sacred
and divine person under the appearance of bread and wine; as St. Peter
Damian says: "In other things we offend God in His creatures, but in
this, we offend Him in His own person," and that too, while He is seated
at His own table, where He offers Himself to His dear friends as their
food and drink; on His throne of glory, surrounded by angels, who wait
on Him; and in His public triumph in which He shows Himself to receive
the adoration of all.According to the Holy
Fathers, the chief end our Lord had in view in instituting the Blessed
Sacrament, was, that He might be repaid on earth for all the labor and
trouble, the frequent hunger and thirst, the watching and fasting, the
pains and torments, the insults and injuries, that His sacred Body had
to endure during His thirty-three years' life on earth; and that all the
members of the true Church should henceforth show Him all the more
humble homage and all the greater honor, in proportion to the insults
and contumely He endured for their sake. From the very beginning up to
the present time, the Catholic Church has distinguished herself by
paying the greatest honor to the Blessed Sacrament; therefore we build
churches, and have them consecrated, because the hidden God, really and
bodily present, takes up His abode in them. Altars are erected and
adorned, because every day the bread and wine are changed on them into
the Body and Blood of Christ; day and night, candles and lamps burn
before the tabernacle; all who enter the church, bend the knee in
profound adoration before Him; the people follow Him with uncovered
heads in public processions; when He is carried through the streets to
the sick, all good Christians, who happen to pass by, show Him honor by
accompanying Him, and even princes, kings and emperors have not
hesitated to do the same. (Good Christians, I say; for they who, having
the opportunity, do not show our Lord that much respect, give sufficient
proof, either that they have little faith in the great Lord who is
present in the Blessed Sacrament, or that they are ignorant of the
proper mode of behaving towards Him.) In a word, as the learned and
pious Duns Scotus says:
"Nearly every devotion of the Church is directed to the Blessed
Sacrament," in order to show honor to it. See now, wicked Christian,
what you do, when you dare to receive Holy Communion in the state of
sin; you attack the King and Lord of Hosts when He is publicly seated on
His throne of, honor and glory; you cast Him into the mire of sin, and
thus cause Him a moral suffering and death, which He feels far more
acutely, than that He had to suffer long ago at the hands of the Jews
and the executioners; and therefore the holy Fathers call an unworthy
Communion a renewing and increasing of the Passion and death of Jesus
Christ.One of the bitterest
pangs our Lord felt in His Passion was caused by the treason of His
Apostle Judas; and that, because the traitor kissed his Master under the
appearance of friendship. This was the only complaint that our Lord
made to His murderers. "Judas," said He, "dost thou betray the Son of
man with a kiss (Luke xxii. 48)?" As if He wished to add: My
friend, the kiss I give thee comes from a heart that loves thee truly;
but it is not so with thy kiss. If thou desirest to deliver Me into the
hands of My enemies, why didst thou not do so in another way? Thou
couldst have given them another sign, and said: There is He whom you
wish to capture; go and seize Him, and drag Him away. It would Have
caused Me less pain, than to betray Me to My sworn enemies by means of a
sign of friendship and love. How couldst thou be so wicked as to betray
Me by a kiss? This hypocrisy the
traitor was guilty of, while our Lord was still on earth, in the garb of
poverty, and when He offered Himself freely to His Father, as a
sacrifice for our sins. How much more keenly must not His heart feel the
pang caused by the hypocrisy of some Christians, His own beloved
children, who, while He is actually seated on His throne of honor and
glory, approach Him with down-cast eyes, modest and humble demeanor, and
folded hands, not merely to give Him a kiss, but to receive Him into
their breasts, that they may treacherously stab Him to the heart, and
imbue their hands in His Sacred Blood (for, as our faith teaches, that
is what unworthy communicants do)? How much more bitterly our Lord could
complain of such traitors! "Judas, dost thou betray the Son of man with
a kiss?" Treacherous and perjured Christians, what are you thinking of,
that you dare to receive Me in that manner? Do you wish to offend Me
publicly? Do you wish to treat Me as your enemy, although I have never
given you the least cause to do so? If so, then do not come to Me in the
guise of friendship; do not give Me any signs of love; dishonor Me if
you are wicked and ungrateful enough to do so; but do it in such a way,
that all may see what you mean, and what your feelings are towards Me.
Remain away from My Table altogether, and you will cause Me less pain,
than by burying Me in your polluted conscience, and thus committing a
twofold sin.The next insult that,
in my opinion, must have caused our Lord great pain during His Passion,
was the mockery with which the soldiers and executioners treated Him,
when they publicly scorned Him as a mock-king. Jesus is the King of
glory; but then He was a Teacher of humility, clad in an old purple
garment, with a crown of thorns on His head, and a reed in His hands as
sceptre, with a hard stone for a throne; in that guise He was surrounded
by a crowd of soldiers and executioners, who, amidst bursts of derisive
laughter, frequently smote Him on the cheek, and bending the knee
before Him in mockery, cried out: "Hail King of the Jews!" Ye heavens,
how could you bear that spectacle! And yet, presumptuous Christian, do
you not ill-treat in the same manner your glorified Saviour, who is now
reigning in triumph as King of Heaven, when you receive Holy Communion
in the state of sin? You bend the knee, and bow the head before His
altar, you humble yourself and beat your breast, and adore Him with
folded hands, and thus you outwardly show Him all reverence; but what is
it all, but mocking and laughing at your God as a mock-king; for your
heart is still embittered against Him, and you buffet Him anew by the
fearful sacrilege you are committing?Finally, the Jews
nailed our Lord to the Cross, and thus put Him to death. But you, false
Christians, nail Him to a far more painful and disgraceful cross than
the sinless tree was. For you shut Him up in a foul prison, where He
must put up with sin, than which nothing is more intolerable to Him, as
his companion. They who crucified Him in former times, knew Him not, and
looked upon Him as a poor, lowly mortal, who was condemned to a
shameful death by the judge's sentence; "for" as St. Paul says: "if they
had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory (I.
Cor. ii. 8)." But you, when you approach the holy Table, and
receive Holy Communion, know well and believe that He whom you are
receiving, is your God, your Saviour, your future Judge, and your
greatest Benefactor, for you know and believe that this Sacrament, which
you so shamefully abuse with your impure conscience, is the most noble
gift of God, a gift that man would never have thought of expecting, if
God Himself, the Infallible Truth, had not told us that He had really
conferred it on us. On the Cross Christ readily fulfilled
the will of His heavenly Father, redeemed the world by His Blood, and
restrained the power of the devil; that sweetened the bitterness of His
painful death, so that He longed for it, and had no rest until His
desire for death was satisfied. But in your sacrilegious Communion He is
tortured against His will; on the cross to which you nail Him, He finds
nothing but ingratitude, inhuman malice, and everything that can
deserve His hatred, His curse, and His reprobation. It Would make one's
hair stand on end to hear of the fearful profanations that Christ has
had to suffer in the most Holy Sacrament of the Altar, from heretics.
Jews, sorcerers and other impious people. The contemptuous names that
they have for Him in their writings, as a God of bread, as a blind and
ignorant God, are the least virulent expressions of their blaspliemons
malice. How often have they not plundered consecrated churches, trampled
the sacred Host underfoot, and given it to the dogs
and cats to be devoured by them? How often have not the Jews pierced the
sacred Host with knives, until the blood poured miraculously from it,
burned it, cooked it, hung it up in their chimneys, and buried it in
their secret chambers. What shall I say of those sorcerers and witches
who used the Flesh and Blood of Christ, under the appearance of bread,
for purposes of witchcraft, sacrificed it to a foul he-goat, that is, to
the devil, on their sabbaths, and desecrated it in various ways? There
are
many such crimes on record, which are enough to make the demons
themselves tremble with horror; much more must I shudder at the bare
thought of them. And yet, what is it all, when compared to the insult
offered to the Son of God by an unworthy Communion? With the exception
of the profanations of those unnatural people, which are grievous enough
as far as the malice of the will is concerned (although heretics and
Jews thus ill-treated the Blessed Sacrament, more out of contempt for
Catholics, than through hatred of Christ), all the other profanations
are not so intolerable to our Lord's Person, as to be received in the
Holy Communion in the state of mortal sin (examples: divorce and
remarriage which is adultery, fornication, homosexuality etc). To be
torn to pieces, burnt, and thrown into filthy cesspools is bad enough;
but still those places have not any moral wickedness in themselves; they
are clean in the eyes of God, compared to the conscience that is
defiled by mortal sin; for that is the only thing that is really
repulsive in the sight of God, and if our Lord had to make the choice,
He would certainly prefer to be thrown on a dunghill, rather than be
buried in the heart of a sinner.I will prove this by a
short example taken from the Annals of our Society. In the year 1601,
in the Philippine Islands, there was a young man who had committed a
secret sin, that he was ashamed to confess; he went to Communion, but
hardly had he swallowed the Sacred Host, when he felt such violent
pains, that he had to crawl rather than walk out of the church. As soon
as he got outside he was attacked by a fit of vomiting, and rejected the
Sacred Species, which were still intact; when he was immediately freed
from the pain. Evidently our Lord wished to show thereby, that it was
more tolerable for Him to be thrown into a filthy corner, than to remain
any longer in a heart defiled by mortal sin. Yet, that is not saying
half enough;
for, as a certain author remarks: "Hell is a more suitable place for the
Almighty God, than the house of a sinner. And why? Because in hell He
is a Lord of vengeance and a just Judge, who punishes His wicked enemies
with deserved torments; whereas in the heart of the sinner, He is
compelled to lie, like a prisoner, in a loathsome dungeon, where He is
kept, so to speak, only for the purpose of being tortured. Oh man, see
how shamefully you ill-treat your Saviour, when you receive Holy
Communion in the state of sin! What in the name of God can you
be thinking of, as you kneel at the altar rails, with your conscience
reproaching you, as it must do, with mortal sin? What does your heart
feel, I ask you, when you see the priest coming towards you with the
Sacred Host in his hand, and you open your mouth to receive it, into
your sinful bosom? Are you not afraid of your Judge? Do you not tremble
before the Almighty, in whose presence the purest spirits of Heaven are
penetrated with a reverential awe? Do you not fear that the lightning
will fall from Heaven, and strike you dead
on the spot, or that the earth will open to swallow you up? Do you not
dread the fate that happened to many, that you will be struck blind at
the altar rails, or become possessed by the devil?Ah Christians, is it
possible that, among Catholics, any one can be found so presumptuous as
to dare to receive Holy Communion in the state of mortal sin? What do
you think, pious souls? I suppose you can hardly believe that
Christians are guilty of such wickedness? Ah, would to God that such
were the case! For, only too often, as I fear, is that fearful sin
committed by Catholics. The cause of this fear I will tell you in theSecond Part:There are many kinds of people who generally receive Holy Communion in the state of mortal sin; namely, the unchaste, the vindictive, the unjust, the culpably ignorant; I will say nothing of those who communicate through sheer malice. First, with regard to
the unchaste; how many are there not of both sexes, both married and
single, and God grant that there may be none of this kind even among
persons consecrated to God! who make a custom of this sin? For
they sin either with themselves, or with others for years and years;
and during that time their desires tend to illicit intercourse with
others, and they either remain in the same house, or otherwise in the
proximate occasion of sin with their accomplice, or if the occasion is
wanting to them, they have at least a constant desire for sins of
impurity, like invalids who, when they are forbidden certain kinds of
food and drink, esteem those happy who are allowed to enjoy them.
Meanwhile, they communicate several times a year, what are such people
thinking of? Oh, they say, we go to Confession beforehand. God help
them! what-a poor Confession theirs is! For they can have neither true
sorrow nor purpose of amendment, since they remain in the occasion of
sin; and thus they burden their souls with a new sacrilege. All their
Communions are bad and sacrilegious.Secondly, the
vindictive. I mean those who for a long time have been at enmity and
variance with their neighbor; and who, although they say with the lips, I
forgive him, and bear no ill-will to him, yet avoid him through spite
and refuse to salute him; burst almost with envy when they hear him
praised, and exult with a secret joy when they hear of his misfortunes;
and if they are in the same trade or employment, do their best to ruin
him. Alas, how many people there are who communicate in that state!
Neighbors, relations, sometimes brothers and sisters go every month to
the Table of the Lord, and yet they hardly speak to each other once in
the month, through hatred and ill-will. Is that the way to make a worthy
Communion? Does not Christ expressly say in the Gospel of St. Matthew:
"If therefore thou offer thy gift at the altar, and there thou remember
that thy brother hath anything against thee: Leave there thy offering
before the altar, and go first to be reconciled to thy brother; and then
coming, thou shalt offer thy gift (Matth. v. 23-24)." If you
do not accuse yourselves of those things in Confession, what sort of a
Confession do you make? For you are acting in flagrant violation of the
law of Christ: "But I say to you; Love your enemies; do good to them
that hate you, etc (Ibid 44)." If you confess those sins each time, but
without the intention of being reconciled to your enemy, and are
nevertheless allowed to go to Holy Communion, what sort of a confessor
have you ? You must know that all your Communions are sacrilegious.Thirdly, the unjust,
who possess wrongfully what belongs to others, and do not restore it
when they can and ought to restore it. Alas, how many there are who
know, or at least ought to know, that that piece of land, that house,
that money, or whatever it may be, does not lawfully belong to them, and
still continue to keep possession of it! How many also know that their
parents, or ancestors, whose property they have inherited, contracted
debts here and there, which have not yet been paid, and who do not pay
those debts, because through mistake on the part of the creditors no
demand has been made for them! How many who know that they oppress the
poor unjustly, and wilfully cause them loss and injury; who know that
they defraud their laborers and servants of their wages; either wholly
or partially; who know that they have exacted an usurious interest from
the needy on account of the distress in which the latter are! How many
there are who are conscious of having tried to secure an unjust judgment
by bribery and corruption, or otherwise to cheat their opponents out of
their rights! How many who have knowingly bought stolen things, or
kept what they found without looking for the owner, or cheated in
buying, selling, or in other ways; and yet keep all they have thus
unjustly gained without the intention of making restitution, or
indemnifying the other for the losses caused him, and who remain in that
state for ten or twenty years, or even longer, and go to Confession and
Communion all the time on the usual days! O my God, what sacrilegious
Confessions and Communions those are! who can count the number of them!
Still these latter may yet open their eyes, see the gravity of their
sins, repent of their unworthy Confessions and Communions and so obtain
forgiveness. But what hope
is there for the fourth class, which is by far the most numerous? They
flatter themselves when they go to Communion, that they are in the state
of grace; and yet they are mistaken. They imagine they have no mortal
sin on their conscience, and yet they have enough of them, and that
through sheer culpable ignorance, because they do not want to know
anything of the sinful lives they lead. They consist, first, of those
who have become accustomed to a certain vice, such as drunkenness,
detraction, cursing, swearing and other sins, which they confess each
time, but never repent of. They think that it is enough for them to tell
everything clearly in Confession, and that then they need give
themselves no further trouble. They
never think of the sorrow and purpose of amendment, which, humanly
speaking, it is impossible for them to have with sincerity; at least,
the fact of their continued relapses into their former sins shows
sufficiently that neither their Confessions nor their Communions have
had any effect on their souls; for these two Sacraments, if received
properly, frequently, and with good dispositions, must necessarily
purify the soul, and sanctify it. There are others who
live in a state of indifference; they trouble
themselves little as to whether their actions are good or bad; they are
culpably ignorant of the duties of their employment or state of life, or
else they neglect to fulfil them, although they are bound both to know
and to fulfil them under pain of mortal sin; and they never accuse
themselves of these sins. To this class belong those who fill certain
important offices and employments for which they know they have not the
necessary abilities; so that they are the occasion of much loss and
injury to others. To this class especially belong parents who teach
their children nothing but the vanities of the world, and take no care
about keeping them from evil, instructing them in good, encouraging them
to piety and the fear of the Lord, and leading them on to Heaven. Thirdly, this class
consists of all those who live according to the manners and customs of
the voluptuous world, and are addicted to many abuses that cannot always
be excused from mortal sin, and although they now and then have a
reasonable doubt of the lawfulness of their conduct, yet try to banish
that doubt by all kinds of false excuses; so that they look upon those
abuses as lawful, because many others are addicted to them also. All
these people go every month, every fortnight, sometimes every week to
Communion, and remain just as they were before; nay, as far as those
worldly abuses are concerned, they come to the sacred Table immodestly
dressed, to receive their Lord. Ye angels, what think ye of such
Communions? St. Paul, what do you say of them? Are the hearts of those
people properly disposed to receive the Flesh and Blood of the Most
Holy? " Let a man prove himself," you say, to see if he be worthy, "And
so let him eat of that bread . . . , for he that eateth and drinketh
unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself (1. Cor. xi. 28,
29)."Ah, whoever
you may be, who are amongst the number of those of whom I have spoken, I
have one request to make of you, by way of conclusion; and that is,
that you abstain from Communion, even at Easter, even on your death-bed
unless you intend to leave the proximate occasion of sin, to give up
your illicit intereourse, to lay aside your hatred and ill-will against
your neighbor, to restore what you unjustly possess, and to amend your
sinful customs and unlawful abuses. Again, I entreat you, abstain from
Communion! It is true that if you do not communicate at Easter-time, you
commit a grievous sin against the precept of thc Church, which I do not
wish by any means to advise you to commit; still you are guilty of only
one sin thereby, and that a much less grievous one than you would
commit by an unworthy Communion, in which you would offer a most
grievous insult to Jesus Christ. If you have not a sincere purpose of
amendment, do not communicate, even on your death-bed; it is true that
you will then be lost for ever, and I do not by any means wish to advise
you to incur eternal damnation; still your damnation will not be so
deep as it would be, if you went into eternity loaded with the weight of
an unworthy Communion. O my God, what a terrible situation ours is, if
we are compelled to choose between one degree of damnation and another!
It remains true, then, sinners, your damnation will be less grievous
without, than with a sacrilegious Communion.Reverence due to the
most Holy Sacrament, to what dost then now compel me? To keep souls away
from the Table to which our Saviour so lovingly invites all men.
"Come to Me, all you that labor, and are burdened, and I will refresh
you (Matth. xi. 28)." Come, eat my bread and drink the wine which I
have mingled for you (Prov. ix. 5);" which I have prepared for you out
of pure love. Come, and come often; the oftener the better. "My delight
is to be with the children of men (Ibid. viii. 31)."
To keep them away from that food which is the necessary nourishment and
strength of their souls against all temptations; from that food, without
which, according to our Saviour's own testimony, we cannot have life in
us: "Except you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, . . . you shall not
have life in you (John vi. 54)." Do I then wish to deter you from
receiving this Food? No, my dear brethren, such is not at all my
intention; I will forbid no one to approach this table; I say to you
all: Come to Holy Communion, and come often; but at the same time I warn
you in the words of St. Ambrose, "Let him who wishes to receive Life,
amend his life; " Communicate, but with a pure heart; communicate, but
not in the state of mortal sin; communicate, but woe to you, if instead
of life, you should eat eternal death with the Bread of life! Still there will be
many who will refuse to do as I say. They will go on as usual, and
offer the most fearful injuries to our Lord by their unworthy
Communions, that they may keep up the appearance of being Catholics.
That is the way, O Lord, in
which Thy Christians thank Thee, for Thy liberality towards them! Didst
Thou not foresee it when Thou wast instituting this Blessed Sacrament?
Certainly, Thou didst, and the future ingratitude of men was not unknown
to Thee. Why hast Thou, then, given Thyself thus to a thankless world.
Why dost Thou not withdraw from it at once? On account of the few souls
who receive Thee worthily. Pious Christians, this
is the thought which, I leave you by way of conclusion. For your sake,
to remain with you, to be your refuge, consolation and help, to be your
food and drink in life, and your Viaticum in the hour of death; (oh
love, who can understand thee!) the great God has been pleased to bear
with the most outrageous insults from the wicked; He suffers them still,
and will continue to suffer them to the end of time. Think now what a
debt of praise, thanksgiving, honor and love you owe your God who loves
you so much! Think and say with the Prophet David: "What shall I render
to the Lord (Ps. cxv. 12)?" Is it not our right, O my God, that I
should love Thee with my whole heart, in return, and should fulfil Thy
holy will, as far as I know it, most exactly? That I should often visit
Thee in this most Holy Sacrament, and adore Thee most modestly and
humbly in Thy Church? That whenever I have the opportunity, I should
accompany Thee through the streets, as Thou art carried to the sick?
That, as often as my confessor allows, I should receive Thee, according
to Thy wish and desire, with all possible devotion; and thus help in
some measure to atone for the injuries thou sufferest, for my sake, from
Jews, heretics and wicked Christians. Yes, that I will do with Thy
grace. Amen.

Refusal of the Sacraments to Public Sinners
(Applies to divorced and remarried Catholics, public heretics, those living openly
in fornication [cohabitation without marriage] and homosexual unions etc.)

A public sinner must always be refused the Sacraments, whether he wishes
to receive them publicy or secretly. Exception is always made for the
Sacrament of Penance if the sinner is right disposed. That one be no
longer considered a public sinner, it is generally sufficient that he be
known to have gone to Confession. If he is living in a proximate,
voluntary occassion of sin (e.g. in concubinage) he must, as a rule,
first give this up. In the example given he must likewise first repair
public scandal (e.g. by disapproving of a wayward life.)

Mortal Sin: A transgression of the moral law in a
serious matter, committed with clear advertence to the grievous nature
of the act and with full deliberation and consent on the part of the
will. It is called mortal since it deprives the soul of its supernatural
life of sanctifying grace. It deserves eternal punishment, since the
offence is a deliberate act of rebellion against the infinite Majesty of
God.

Sacrilege is committed by the reception of the sacraments unworthily (i.e. while in the state of mortal sin).

Adultery:
The completed act of carnal intercourse between persons of different
sex, of whom one at least is married to someone else. It is a sin
against both chastity and injustice, and if both parties are married the
offense is aggravated, for each one incurs a double sin of injustice.
For a married person to give consent to his or her partner's adultery
does not alter the sin, for marriage rights are inalienable.

Adultery is always mortally sinful and bars the
sinner not only from Holy Communion but from heaven itself unless this
sin is repented of: "Know you not that the unjust shall not possess
the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
nor the effeminate, nor liers with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous,
nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom
of God."--1 Corinthians 6: 9-10

Attempted Marriage: A married person, who attempts a
second marriage, becomes a public sinner, and is to be excommunicated
or placed under a personal interdict (2356).

Concubinage: the state--more or less permanent--of a
man and woman living together in illicit intercourse. Persons living
in public concubinage are not to be admitted to Holy Communion. "Any
one publicly living in concubinage shall be excluded from all legitimate
ecclesiastical acts until he has repented and amended his life" (Canon: 2357, 3). Persons living in concubinage are not to be admitted to Holy Communion (855). Public or notorious concubinage is a source of impediment of public propriety. (1074)

Fornication: is a completed act of sexual
intercourse between a man and a woman who are not married but are free
to marry. It is a grave sin and intrinsically wrong and are mortally
sinful. As with all mortal sins, Holy Communion cannot be received
without committing grave sacrilege.

Q. Can anyone change the doctrine of Jesus Christ, or the articles of
faith, the commandments, or the sacraments? or Could some new doctrine,
new commandment, or new sacrament be added; or could some of the
articles of faith, some of the commandments, or some of the sacraments
be left out?

A. By no means.

Q. Why not?

A. Because not even the Apostles themselves had power from Christ to add to, or leave out, any portion of Christ's doctrine.

Q. What does St. Paul say to assure us that nothing whatsoever can be added to, or left out of the doctrine of Jesus Christ?

A. He says: But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to
you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As
we said before so now I say again: if any one preach to you a gospel
besides that which you have received, let him be accursed." Gal. i. 8,
9.

"Hold firmly that your faith is identical with that of the ancients.
Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church."--(St. Thomas
Aquinas)

"If anyone rejects any written or unwritten tradition of the church, let him be anathema."
(Second Council of Nicaea 787 A.D.)

There Can be No New Dogmas
or Progress in Church Teachings

"The Church of Christ, zealous and cautious guardian of the dogmas
deposited with it, never changes any phase of them. It does not diminish
them or add to them; it neither trims what seems necessary nor grafts
things superfluous; it neither gives up its own or usurps what does not
belong to it. But it devotes all its diligence to one aim: to treat
tradition faithfully and wisely; to nurse and polish what from old times
may have remain unshaped and unfinished; to consolidate and strengthen
what already was clear and plain; and to guard what already was
confirmed and defined."--(St. Vincent of Lerins, 5th century A.D.)

"What then should a Catholic do if some part of the Church were to
separate itself from communion with the universal Faith? What other
choice can he make but to prefer to the gangrenous and corrupted member
the whole of the body that is sound. And if some new contagion were to
try to poison no longer a small part of the Church, but all of the
Church at the same time, then he will take the greatest care to attach
himself to antiquity which, obviously, can no longer be seduced by any
lying novelty."
(St. Vincent of Lerins, c. 434 A.D.)

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St. Bernard:

Go forth confidently then, you knights, and repel the foes of the cross of Christ with a stalwart heart. Know that neither death nor life can separate you from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ, and in every peril repeat, "Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's." What a glory to return in victory from such a battle! How blessed to die there as a martyr! Rejoice, brave athlete, if you live and conquer in the Lord; but glory and exult even more if you die and join your Lord. Life indeed is a fruitful thing and victory is glorious, but a holy death is more important than either. If they are blessed who die in the Lord, how much more are they who die for the Lord!

How secure, I say, is life when death is anticipated without fear; or rather when it is desired with feeling and embraced with reverence! How holy and secure this knighthood and how entirely free of the double risk run by those men who fight not for Christ! Whenever you go forth, O worldly warrior, you must fear lest the bodily death of your foe should mean your own spiritual death, or lest perhaps your body and soul together should be slain by him.

Indeed, danger or victory for a Christian depends on the dispositions of his heart and not on the fortunes of war. If he fights for a good reason, the issue of his fight can never be evil; and likewise the results can never be considered good if the reason were evil and the intentions perverse. If you happen to be killed while you are seeking only to kill another, you die a murderer. If you succeed, and by your will to overcome and to conquer you perchance kill a man, you live a murderer. Now it will not do to be a murderer, living or dead, victorious or vanquished. What an unhappy victory--to have conquered a man while yielding to vice, and to indulge in an empty glory at his fall when wrath and pride have gotten the better of you!

But what of those who kill neither in the heat of revenge nor in the swelling of pride, but simply in order to save themselves? Even this sort of victory I would not call good, since bodily death is really a lesser evil than spiritual death. The soul need not die when the body does. No, it is the soul which sins that shall die.

The knight of Christ, I say, may strike with confidence and die yet more confidently, for he serves Christ when he strikes, and serves himself when he falls. Neither does he bear the sword in vain, for he is God's minister, for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good. If he kills an evildoer, he is not a mankiller, but, if I may so put it, a killer of evil. He is evidently the avenger of Christ towards evildoers and he is rightly considered a defender of Christians. Should he be killed himself, we know that he has not perished, but has come safely into port.

Once he finds himself in the thick of battle, this knight sets aside his previous gentleness, as if to say, "Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord; am I not disgusted with your enemies?" These men at once fall violently upon the foe, regarding them as so many sheep. No matter how outnumbered they are, they never regard these as fierce barbarians or as awe-inspiring hordes. Nor do they presume on their own strength, but trust in the Lord of armies to grant them the victory.

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Saint Athanasius

"May God console you! ... What saddens you ... is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises – but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith?The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in the struggle – the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith? True, the premises are good when the Apostolic Faith is preached there; they are holy if everything takes place there in a holy way ..."You are the ones who are happy; you who remain within the Church by your Faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from Apostolic Tradition. And if an execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis. No one, ever, will prevail against your Faith, beloved Brothers. And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day. "Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church; but in reality, they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray. Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ."